Steve Hackett’s latest has me thinking again of great moments in prog. I will always remember the time when, gathered around the record player with some buddies, sitting on the floor in a friend’s bedroom, we first listened to a vinyl copy of Selling England By the Pound. Hackett’s new double-disc celebration of great moments from Genesis reproduces for me a couple of those moments of elation when the magic happens. Take, for example, “Dancing with the Moonlit Knight”. For me the truly great moment (in the original recording) is at 3:18 as the guitar gloriously sings out, right after the thrilling build-up starting at 2:57. By the way, I have always found annoying everything after 4:57 in this song, because it seems inorganic and tacked-on. But that still doesn’t take away from the magic moment, where Eddie Van Halen and the rest of us are shown the way into the dimension of transcendence. So, I am pleased to find that the magic is still there on Genesis Revisited II (build-up at 3:13; break-out at 3:34). See also the clip below (build-up at 3:25; break-out at 3:47).